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While the manual handling of data by content experts without advanced IT application is currently feasible, there is significant potential in further developing of the assets through:

  1. Common understanding of the benefits of dedicated data management support in all phases of dataflow (collection, storage, processing, assessment, publishing) by all involved national institutions; this would be followed by policy decisions towards centralisation of infrastructure.
  2. Employment and development of dedicated data management experts; rather than outsourcing production of web portals, the dedicated data management experts would be an important link between IT developers and water topic content experts; based in respective institutions, they would be able to support all phases of the dataflow.

In addition to purely technical expertise, understanding the knowledge-building potential of the rich datasets available at the institutions would make way for various derived products, such as more detailed environmental indicators, spatial analyses, and environmental data integration and mining.

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